Team Usa Captains Picks

Solheim cup teams wasn t a huge fan of captain s picks.

Team usa captains picks.

Captain steve stricker would pick half of his 12 man ryder cup team under a revised points system that accounts for golf not being played for three months during the covid 19 pandemic. Team usa have changed their qualification criteria for the 2020 ryder cup and increased the number of captain s picks from four to six. Get the best prices and book a round at one of 1 700 courses. Juli inkster who captained the last three u s.

She first inquired about changing the points system but when that didn t get far suggested increasing the number of picks. Tim russell rounds out the captain s picks for team usa. The european team will comprise the first four players from the european points list followed by the leading five players from the world points list and completed by three wild cards. Inkster believed in qualifying on merits.

Team europe has six by. Better late than never for tim as he rounds out the choices for team usa. Michelle wie west is one of the team usa vice captains. That didn t stop her from raising some eyebrows with her selections though.

Love named the first two usa vice captains in june 2012 and announced the other two after the pga championship. Tim is 18 for 18 in cuts made has a 2nd and two top 10 finishes to go with a 65 2 scoring average. Team will be made up from the top six in the points rankings with six captain s picks. The captains were davis love iii for team usa and josé maría olazábal for europe.

With the covid 19 pandemic shrinking the number of playing opportunities on the lpga solheim cup captain pat hurst thought changing the qualifying criteria for team usa might be in order. Congrats to everyone that made the team and go usa. At the moment hurst has two captain s picks with 10 players qualifying. Team usa s pat hurst lobbies for more solheim cup captain s picks.

The united states are currently planning to stick with the two captain s picks with eight coming from the solheim cup points list and two. Beth ann nichols tue 22 sep 2020 golfweek with the covid 19 pandemic shrinking the number of playing opportunities on the lpga solheim cup captain pat hurst thought changing the qualifying criteria for team usa might be in order. Captains picks are shown in yellow.